new stephanie meyer book

[vanouria.livejournal.com]

a lot of you guys have probably heard of the twilight books, the insanely popular unbelievably shamelessly crappy vampire novels. anyway the author has come out with a new book and i was reading the summary and parts of it have some glaring resemblances to our favorite parasite species.

NOTE: i'm not trying to say she copied animorphs or even that she had it in mind while writing this! i just wanted to post it because it reminded me of animorphs and i'm sure you all can see the reason why.



The Host

A gripping story of love and betrayal in a future with the fate of humanity at stake. Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed.Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing to relinquish possession of her mind.Melanie fills Wanderer's thoughts with visions of the man Melanie loves-Jared, a human who still lives in hiding. Unable to separate herself from her body's desires, Wanderer yearns for a man she's never met. As outside forces make Wanderer and Melanie unwilling allies, they set off to search for the man they both love.

Comments

[vanouria.livejournal.com]

yeah the only fans i have a problem with are the ones that like to claim that twilight is the best piece of literature to grace god's green earth. the people who acknowledge that it's just fun useless reading are okay with me. and i totally agree with you about animorphs!

[stretch.livejournal.com]

They're probably the same 13 year old girls running around going "OMG, Edward is so hotsexyperfectwowmakemeavampiretoo and I will hate you 4EVA if you disagree!" God, I loathe them too, they're the problem with fandom.

But seriously, Animorphs actually ruined a lot of book for my just because it was so well written (at least early on) that it raised the bar kind of high. Not that it wasn't without flaws, but it was pretty high quality for the day and demographic.

[vanouria.livejournal.com]

you know i recently heard about "twilight moms" -- as in middle aged mothers who are DIE HARD fans of the books and actually are so obsessed with the series that they don't feed their kids sometimes. i'm not even lying, there's a message board and everything. as insane as it is, it's just so hilarious that i'm almost glad they're in existence LOL

i know what you mean! it's too bad a lot of kids wrote the books off because the covers were "weird" because honestly i think animorphs is the reason i never fell for the fluffy books/movies when i was younger and gravitated towards things with more substance.

[stretch.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't get me started on TwiMoms - they're off the handle and I'm fairly sure I've managed to piss off most of them too. They're the same 13 year old girls, only trapped in over weight, middle aged bodies, who go to sleep at night pleading with their husbands to roleplay Edward so they can have sex with him. They also like to sneak onto the movie set and hide in the bushes stalker-style, then post the videos on YouTube. It's gotten creepy.

And I totally agree about the covers. When Animorphs was in its hay-day I was the only girl in class who read them - my other friends would walk right past them, claiming they were too "weird." But my guy friends and I got totally hooked, and when I was 9 years old I decided that Rachel was my hero ;)

[vanouria.livejournal.com]

me too! (about rachel) it's too bad people looked it over cause of its cover -- they didn't have a problem reading goosebumps! (although i read it too hehe) and those covers were insanely scary sometimes. i don't think i need to mention the one with the dummy on the cover.